October was a wildly busy month and November is shaping up into the same. The exhaustion I'm used to on Friday afternoon is occurring on Tuesday now. Time for a break.While I'm off today putting a chunk of copy down on my National Novel Writing Month...

I had a nice email conversation with a blog regular the other day. She was relaying her frustration with bidding a large job. In giving all the details, it sounded like a pickle until she typed this line: "Any per-page rate I try to quote blows their...

Those of you who have been with me for a while know that I'm passionate about writers valuing their talents appropriately - hence Writers Worth Day, my mid-May mini-fest to remind the writing world that we too deserve decent wages. But talk on...

Not to open Pandora's box again, but my better half came across an interesting post that speaks directly to why content mills have a less-than-stellar reputation. He frequents a Scottish forum, and one of the forum members was livid recently. It...

Beginning writers (and those still not up to their earning potential), this is for you.The eternal dilemma: how little is too little payment for any job? When you're starting out especially, the problem becomes how to build a credible list of...